5. If you are a practicing or former zinemaker, you already know this – it’s SO NICE to receive things in the mail. We are a nice thing that will come to you only four times a year! It’s like you get a lil’ present, every season.
4. We are the only magazine around that carries tons and tons of zine reviews every issue. If you want to keep on top of emerging writers, activists and artists, we are the mag that will help you do it. Seriously. Look at all these durn reviews we’ve published so far! We love zines and we will keep reading and reviewing as many as we can UNTIL WE DIE.
3. You’ll get to read features about people and movements that exist both within and outside zine culture. We’ve published great stories on queer zines, prison zines, and zines vs. high art, but we’ve also done stories on movements in other mediums, including recent pieces on the groundbreaking gaming software Twine, DIY horror and puppets. We do our best to be surprising and incisive in our explorations of underground culture in Canada and beyond.
2. It’s our 20th anniversary this year, so your next issue will be our super-stacked anniversary retrospective, where we’ll look at influential zinemakers and where they are now, pay tribute to Canada’s underground comix scene over the past 20 years and look back at Canzines past. Why not begin your subscription with a milestone?
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